WATCH: Shot twice, completely blind teen is still skateboarding
The 19-year-old now relies on memory and patient friends to skateboard.
Zion Ricks-Gaines with one of his friends at a skate park. Picture: AFP
Being shot in both eyes and completely blinded hasn’t stopped US teen Zion Ricks-Gaines from skateboarding.
The 19-year-old’s life was derailed outside a bar late last year when a man who had been drinking began shooting at him and his friends as they made their way home.
He was hit twice. One bullet destroyed his right eye; the other smashed the socket around his left, puncturing the eyeball and leaving it deflated and withered.
Ricks-Gaines hasn’t given up his passion – skateboarding. Take a look.
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